The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-19
Farm and stock Notes-

Wheat straw, cut fine and moistened with
water slightly sailed, then sprinkled with
corn-meal, will be eaten by Sheep, and will
answer for them if they be also fed literally
ON grain.
Parsnips and satisfy oyster plant are
perfectly hardy, SO that only enough for a
winter supply need be dug up and housed
In the fall. Those left in the ground will
come out fresh and sound in the spring.
A good full stock of bees, say 20, 900, should
have at least 20 pounds of good honey and
plenty of good dry combs to insure sue
cessful wintering, and be placed in dark,
dry cellar or some other properly arranged
place for them.
Dry sleeping places are indispensable to
sheep. If compelled to remain on damp
locations the wool VIII dry very slowly and
the animals will often contract lung trou-
bles. Sheep are liable to more diseases than
any other class of farm stock, and for that
reason should be more carefully protected.
Horse troughs should be thoroughly
washed with warm water occasionally, as
there is more or less food left over, which
in time will become filthy. Should moist
ened ground food remain in the trough and
the weather become somewhat warm it will
partially ferment, and in that manner rem
der other food unwholesome
The government experiments this wear in
making sugar from sorghum are said to be
very successful On fair soil the yield of
cane was an average of twelve tons. The
average yield of sugar per acre was about
1000 pounds and of syrup 1870 gallons. 1t
is claimed that at this rate, even at the
present low price of sugar, the business of
making sugar from sorghum will be very
profitable.
A good way of wintering cabbage is to
pull 1t up by the roots on a dry day, wrap
up the outside leaves cal efully and snugly
around the heads and place them in a row,
roots up. Then cover with soil lightly at
first, adding more as the season advances.
In order to secure free access to the supply
In mdwinter the ridges may be protected
from freezing solid by some litter being
thrown over it.
The value of stable dung, says Prof.
Wyatt, must not be estimated upon actual
richness in ammonia or phosphoric acid
within short period of its production, but
must be calculated on its wonderful physi-
cal and chemical action on the elements of
the soil and the air, and upon its merits as
a vehicle or conductor into which complet
ing quantities of outside substances can be
introduced, decomposed and rapidly made
available.
The wastes of the garden will be highly
enjoyed by the porkers. Cabbage leaves
and stalks, with the small sweet potatoes
and other things not valuable for family
use and that cannot be stored for the pigs
in the cold days, had better be fed to them
now than allowed to decay. Ordinarily
these things are not considered of much
value, but when vegetation is scarce, as it
is now it is well to make use of what we
often look upon as tri1es.
The value of barley mea, as feed for
Ic not ho1f ~aosa% <1I l.
Wisconsin experiment station show that $50
pounds of uncooked barley meal were re-
quired to produce 100 pounds of pork, live
weight, while of corn meal 463 pounds were
required, of corn meal and shorts half and
half 574 pounds, and of whole corn and
shorts half and half 4S4 pounds were re-
quired. This is not a very striking show
ing in favor of barley meal, but it demon
strates most conclusively that pork can be
prottably produced on barley in Northern
regions where corn cannot be grown at a
profit.
It is important now to see that good drain
age is provided, especially with newly set
trees or plants. 1t will not answer to allow
the water to stand around the roots to freeze
and thaw. If good tile drain should be
laid between each row of fruit trees, this,
of course, would be the best. But where
this cannot be done good surface drainage
can be made to answer, provided care be
taken to do the work properly Usually
whatever mulching is needed in the straw
berry bed should be applied at least by the
latter part of this month. See that what
ever material may be used will be spread
evenly between the rows.
In discussing WAYS and means for the i'm
provement of highways it should never be
lost sight of that the roadbed can never be
satisfactory as long as it is not thoroughly
drained. In a majority Of cases this can be
done by grading up-cGtUing bitches along
the sides. But the tendency is toward the
following out of the centre of the grade;
and, as the ground is somewhat compacted,
water is held for some time to the great in
jury of the road bed. Every few weeks.
when the weather will permit, the grade
should be dressed, filling up the depressed
paths made by the animals When thor
ough drainage cannot be secured in any
other way, underdrain. The same princi-
Piles apply as in the draining of land for
crops.